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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL, Tolographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

AND

"

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL Tolographic Address "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Dea Wagons Lite, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Most Modern and Central Hotel In the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed, with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

Hatet launch racets all steamers.

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(825 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above Hotal.)

Tol, Add "Victoria."

HOTELS OF

HOTEL METROPOL

!!

Telephone C. 878 J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

DISTINCTION

The Kowloon Hotel Kowloon.

FLYERS' SECOND LONG HOP.

REACH CALCUTTA AFTER A FLIGHT TO HANQĮ.

FRENCH PROGRESS.

A Reuter message from Calcutta, dated yesterday, states that the two French airmen, Costes and Lebrix have arrived thers from Hanoi.

They have therefore flown from Tokyo to Calcutta in two hops. Leaving Tokyo on Sunday at 7.23 a.m. they accomplished the 2,500 mile flight to Hanoi in just over 83 hours, reaching Hanoi at 4.45 | p.m. on Monday.

Their second hop from Hanol.to Calcutta was one of about 1,100 milos and it is presumed that they flew over Annam, Burmah, Assam and so into Bengal.

The message from Calcutta le timed 7.65 p.m. on Tuesday and It may be presumed that the French flyers deft Hanoi carly in the morning and accomplished the journey to Calcutta by carly even ing.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928.

NEW AUTOMATIC SYSTEM.

(Continued from Pago 1.)

FORD PAYS VISIT TO LONDON.

MAY PRODUCE POWER FROM REFUSE DUMP.

BRITAIN AND TRADE.

London, Apr. 10.

lay must perforce occur, apart from which the process involves heavy capital expenditure. I Whink shareholders will agree, however, that the resulting.im- proved service fully justifies your Directors in sanctioning the ox- Mr. Henry Ford de revisiting Lon- pense entailled by such achemas. don. after sixteen years and in an As a result of this programme, the interview he said he was investigat number of complaints has been reing the possibilities of producing duced to a low figure, notwith-power from the big dump of London standing that the number of sub-refuse at Dagenham which covers scribers' lines has been increased one third of the three hundred acres during the year by 711 exchange belonging to him. lines and 446 extension lines.

Mr. Ford is confident that Ameri- Taking the liabilities side of the car prosperity will continue Indo- balance sheet, you will observefinitely. Machinery was the only that General Reserve abands at thing to give real prosperity to Bri- $75,000.00; therefore, if the appro-tain which; he considered, was still priations recommended by the the centre of world trade. Board in respect of the year under Britain was able to manufacture review be adopted, this account better for the continent, India and will be in 'credit to the extent of other places than any other country. $125,000.00,

The same applied to tractora för Africa, Russia and elsewhere.

The

Mr. Ford said that the removal of the rubber restrictions would not Firestone interests had gone to look affect his plans in Brazil. round Liberia. It was possible that they would never make a tyre for sale but would turn the whole product over to the manufacturers.

Renter.

On the assets side of the balanca sheet, under General Plant, you will find an addition of 3155,905.89, the major portion of which figure a represented by plant of a per manent nature, being in respect Before coming east the two air- of the matter to which I have just men flew from France across the referred, namely the expenditure Southern Atlantic and up and on laying underground cables in peross the United States. They substitution for overhead wires, a

London Rubber Slump. then travelled by stener to Tokyo, conversion which, under the terms

London, Apr. 10. At the moment there is no news of the Telephone Ordinance, must

The price of spot rubber fell to regarding the next hop from be carried out with reasonable 8d. per pound in Mincing Lane Calcutta, but it is understood that expodition. In this respect you rubber market today. This is the Costes and Lebrix will eventually will no doubt be interested to lowest price since 1922-British return to Paris.

know that 1,594.188 circuit miles of underground cable and 71.369 circuit miles of covered distribut- tion cables were laid down during the year.

RUBBER FACTORY

FIRE.

Automatic Phones.

Wireless.

NEW MOTOR VESSEL.

THE "TOLEDO" MAKES FIRST 'CALL HERE.

Another item calling for special

A new arrival to the port was' DAMAGE OF THREE LAKHS OF comment is Automatic Plant (Pre-registered this morning, in the liminary Expenses) which; you Norwegian motor vease! Toledo, DOLLARS.

will observe, now stands at $65, owned by W. Wilhelmson and Co., 960.85; and I am pleased to report for whom Messrs: Dodwell and Co. that very material progress has are the local agents. She entered THIRD BIG OUTBREAK. been made since the last meeting with 99 tons of general caryo for

in regard to the question of a new Hongkong." Singapore, Apr. 3.

telephone system for Hongkong. On your Directors' instructions, the Odense Staalskibs for the The Toledo was built in 1926 by The third rubber factory are the Company's Manager proceeded present owners and is registered at The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveniences, within a few weeks-bringing the to England in May, 1927, and in Tonsberg. She is a steel screw High Claas Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the total value of rubber lost by fire conjunction with our Consulting motor vessel of 4,621 gross and Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and in Singapore de neigbour porod Engineers, Messrs. W. W. Cook & 2,830 nett, her dimensions being

well within the neighbourhood of Partners, drew up specifications Length 376.2 feat, beam 52.5 feet a million dollars-occurred yester-and invitations to tender for an and moulded depth 27.1 feet, Hor day morning.

The scene was the 6 mile, automatic installation for Hong engines were installed by Burmeis-

kong. Tenders were duly called Thomson Road, the premises of the for by our London Agents (the tor and Wain, of Copenhagen, and | Chop Klan Heng Long rubber Oriental Telephone & Electric Co., are six cycle, developing an N.H.P. factory. When the Fire Brigade arrived the pillars and the debris Ltd.) and are now in the hands of of what had been a three-stored the Board, who, I may add, are rubber factory was being fast con- very satisfied with the results sumed by a fiercely raging fire obtained...

Railway Station. Representative meeta all steamers.

Daily Rates from

Monthly Rates from

Tel. No. K.608 & K.609.

$ 6.00.

$130.00.

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

"MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Cables. "Kowlotal." Kowloon..

PALACE HOTEL.

Tol. Address *PALACE.” Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Forry and Railway Station Hatirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout, Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Uarivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietzcas. Termes moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress

Tol. Kowloon No. 8

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables

"EUROPE ·

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL LTD.

Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director.

THE HOTEL RIVIERA

MACAO

Cablo Address:÷="" RIVIERA, 'MACAO'

EMBODYING THE

LUXURIES OF MODERN HOTEL CONSTRUCTION

THE FINAL EXPRESSION

OF COMFORT AND SERVICE

Printed and Published for the Propeladors by Alanen zuEY, Më 2 king 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Vicbezia, Hongkong,

of 493.

Arrivig from New York and Shanghai, the Toledo is command- ed by Captain S. Aarvig and carries a crew of 31 Europeans.

PLOT:

(Continued from Page 1.)

Though the belief is growing In

quarters that decisive measures will be adopted unless the Chinese change their present altitude the Government is known to be particularly anxious to avoid strong measures owing to the

that had apparently been in pro- Your Board are most anxious gross "for some considerable time" to modernise tho exchange in the words of one of the Brigade plant with a view to being JAPANESE COMMUNIST: officers.

1π 1 position to supply a break spreading to a neighbour-to-date lines, and it is with There was danger of the out-telophone service on the most up-

would have produced a conflagra- position to state that a definite ed in connexion with the railway ing village, an eventuality that pleasure, therefore, that I am in a

tion of the dimensione of the great scheme has been submitted to the issue in Manchuria. Geylang fire of a couple years ago, Government, whereby, subject to and the firemen worked hard to the Government's approval, it is some confine the fire to the factory. hoped that the whole system will The first intimation the Singa, be converted to automatic working pore Fire Brigade had of tho in less than two years from date. ocourrence, was a message at As stated in my speech in April, 1.30 a.m. on Sunday from the Fort | 1927, the matter mainly resolves Canning Signal Station that a itself into a question of initial resulting reaction in China and glare was visible in the sky near outlay, and the subscription rates also owing to the delicate position Sea View. It was while ringing to be charged in order to effect a confronting up the Exchange to ascertain if return on investment in the man- session where such netion would the coming. Diet they had had a report of a fire that ner contemplated by the Telephone cortainly be strongly assailed, one of the European officers re- Ordinance, which, as you are ceived the information from Tele-aware, automatically provides for den's recent transfer of rolling The issue bas arlsen over Muk- phone 1446.

decreased subscription rates when stock from the Taona-Nanganchi the return on investment reaches line to the Mukden-Hailung line against which Japan protested on paid-up capital of the Company. the ground that the Taona-Nan- ganchi line is the security of the Japanese loan to China.

A fire engine and a tender reach-

ed the scene at 1.45 a.m.. The a predetermined percentage on the

only source of a water supply was a stream on the estate, and it was only after nine hours hard work that the fire was completely put, out.

F

Menace to Security.

Subscribers' Rates.. In this connexion it should be remembered that the Telephone According to two Indian watch- Committee of the Hongkong Gen-

The Government has ordered the men on duty at the factory the fire eral Chamber of Commerce in began at 1a.m. One of these men the recommendations contained dissolution of the Ronoto (extre states that he saw a fire on the in their Report of August, 1022, mist proletarian party) and two second floor and as he was going suggested a rate of $120 per ex-other extremist political organisa- to call the Chinese "krani," there change line for the year 1926, and, tions on the ground that their was a loud explosion, and the next moreover, in fixing such rates the existence is a menace to security few moments the second floor was payment of a Royalty to Govern- and order. The dissolution does well alight.

ment of $4 per exchange line was not affect the two Ronoto mem- not contemplated. I would callbers in the Diet.-Router. your attention to the fact that this Company has not hitherto applied resigned owing to ill health, was for the higher rates recommend- confirmed. ed, although the telephone service has, in the meantime, been very considerably improvd.

The loss is stated to amount to $300,000, which is covered by in surance. The building did not belong to the company.

HOME FOOTBALL.

HUDDERSFIELD GO DOWN

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The appointments of Messrs. T.

G. Weall and G.G.S. Muckie to the

| Directorate were confirmed on the

I now formally propose that the proposal of Mr. D. Tollan second- report of the Directors and the fed by Mr. W. J. Hawker. accounts for the financial year The re-election to the Director- ended 31st December, 1927, as pre-ato of the chairman and the Hon.

ON OWN GROUND. sented, be adopted, and that the Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., was following appropriations recom- proposed by Mr. D. Tollan, second- mended by the Directors be con-ed by Mr. E. M. Raymond, and The following are the results of firmed:-Payment of a final divid carried unanimously.

end of 5% making 8% for the

On the proposal of Mr. W. J.

London, Apr. 10.

the League football matches play-year, $96,130; transfer to Gen-Hawker seconded by Mr. E. M. ed to-day.

ural Reserve, $50,000; bonus to Raymond Messrs. Lowo Bingham Division I.

European staff, $8,149.98; banus and Matthews were re-elected as Birmingham 0 Nawcastle 2 to operators, $4,334; to carry for auditors. Huddersfield 2 Middlesbro 4ward to next account, $7,015.47; Wednesday 4 Tottenham

Division II,

Barsely

Leeds West Brom.

E

Division

Coventry Merthyr Northants

Walsall

Bradford Halifax

2 Notts, Forest

a Wolves

2 Southampton.

III (South).

0 Nowport

3 Watford

1 Bournemouth

2 Queen's P. R,

Division III (North).

8 Rotherham

1 Rochdale

-Router.

The chairman announced that

2 and I shall be obliged. If a shure-dividend warrants were ready and holder will kindly second such pro- could be obtained on application 1posal, whereupon questions as to the report and accounts may be 1 raised.

Business Matters. Mr. C. G. S. Mackle seconded, and the proposition was carried 1 unanimously.

at the Company's offices.

in

Other Directors present addition to the chairman were Sir Shouson Chow, the Hon. Dr. R. A. Kotewall, CM.G., Mr. R. G. She- wan. Mr. C. G. S. Mackle, Mr. J. H. Taggart, Mr. T. G. Weall and On the proposition of Mr. E. M. Mr. D. H. Blake; also Mr. J. E, Raymond seconded by Mr. D. Tol-Sherry, manager. Shareholders Ian the appointment to the present were Messrs. E. M. Ray- Directorate of Mr. D. H. Blake in mond, D. Tollan and W. J. Haw- place of Mr. B. Lander Lewis, who 'ker,

An Hour of Fun!-

HE COMEDY of two young married THE

people who love each other so much that the smallest incident will break up their happiness one moment and send them into each others arms the next!—

La Plante

THEY

OTES HARLAM

JERR PARKOVÉ JÁ CON PLANCOVAE's BADE SUCCES

ŁA WESLEY RUGGLES Frontacčím

Suk Stockings

FOUGHT to get married. Gosh!

how they fought! They fought after they got married-Gosh how they fought! -And then she fought to get unmarried. But life was simply terrible without her Sam. But you must see Laura in the witness box, and you ought to see her at her hubbie's piazza, and you've got to see her in silk stockings!

AT THE

QUEEN'S

"

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 7.15 & 9.20.

To-Day at 5 p.m.-Miss Daisy O'Keefe's Pupils' Dancing Display.

TheStreet of Forgotten

Men"

HERBERT BRENON

PRODUCTION

FIGUURTED BY ADOLPH ZUKOR JESSE LASHY

AT THE

a Paramount

Picture

With

PERCY MARMONT NEIL HAMILTON MARY BRIAN

A remarkable story of the underworld dealing with the romance of a girl whose life was strange-

ly linked with a baggar and a young millionaire,

WORLD FINAL SHOWINGS

Orchestra B.15 & 9.20,

TO-DAY. Interpreter 2.308 7.15.

A

STIRRING tale of romance and adventure in pioneer days!--

TONGUES

OF

FLAME

With

THOMAS MEIGHAN

and

BESSIE LOVE

AT THE

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

Continuous 2.80 to 11.15.